Friday, October 28, 2016

This figure has a US Army bazooka from an Esci hard plastic Marine set. Figure is Afrika Korps in hard plastic from a Matchbox kit.

I changed the right arm of this figure, and gave him a Thompson SMG. Many of these figures are Imex WWII Germans and US Army Paratroopers Easy Company. They are molded in a glueable plastic that made the conversions much easier.

US .30 caliber water cooled machine gun on a German MG-34 tripod. Figure in the back has an M-1 rifle.

Thursday, October 27, 2016

This is the well known PaK 38 37mm anti-tank gun, withe the large shaped charge projector on the end of the barrel.

Here is the same shaped charged projectile on an American 37mm anti-tank gun. Note the troops are wearing US packs. I got a set of US Army from Valiant. They were listed as 1/72nd scale but I think they are too big. I kept the packs but got rid of the rest. The packs found their way to these guys.

Bazooka with loader. Bazooka is American and the loader has an M-1 rifle.

Another soldier with a US Army pack.

A captured Sherman tank. Jerry can rack and Jerry cans on the rear hull. Side skirts added, and an MG-42 is mounted on the turret. The Germans captured a lot of Shermans and used them for their own. Typically they did not do this much conversion work on the tanks.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

In World War Two the Germans had all sorts of foreign troops serving in the Army and the SS. Often they were brigaded together as a national legion. They included Indian Legion and the British Legion. The British legion was mostly propaganda, but they did have a few troops.

I decided to make an American Legion, called the George Washington Legion. There were a few Americans who agreed to serve the Germans in WWII.

In this unit there is a small platoon of troops. They have been given a mixture of American and German uniforms and equipment. They are an anti-Communist unit and won't fight on the Western Front. Just as the Indian Legion was anti-British and did not fight on the Eastern Front.

This figure has an American Colt .45 and German helmet.

American pack with German helmet. Each figure in the unit has some American gear or weapon. Just as the Russian units that fought for the Germans often wore Russian clothing and carried Soviet weapons.